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[DiddyBop]

Of all the people that watch this film, less than 1% will have even played portal. And please don't be that guy in the seat beside/behind me explaining to your date that the AI voice annoys you because it is from a game you played

 

[Thai]

for those of you who havent seen it: http://youtu.be/2vKz7WnU83E?t=46s

that's Ellen McLain doing a voice in Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim, and for some reason (probably Guillermo asked her, knowing he loves Portal) she decided to do exactly the same voice as GlaDOS.

GlaDOS is a pretty big pop culture character at this point, even trascending your typical gaming characters at some point, and I find it really distracting. If the AI has a name not a single person in the world is not-gonna call her GlaDOS.

This weird thing got me thinking tho, has there ever been anything like this before? someone doing VO in a game and later doing something very similar in a different form of media thus creating this situation? if anything I though non-OT folk should catch this because its fucking weiiiiiiiiiiiird.

LOL, c'mon dude, find me some pop culture references to glados.

 

[Good Job Bob]

LOL, c'mon dude, find me some pop culture references to glados.

Pacific Rim

OHHHHHH

 

[Hot Coldman]

Of all the people that watch this film, less than 1% will have even played portal. And please don't be that guy in the seat beside/behind me explaining to your date that the AI voice annoys you because it is from a game you played

Tough, I'm gonna do that now. PM me your cinema of choice and I'll book seats. Don't worry, ticket's on me.

I'll use my whiniest nerd voice and everything!

 

[Fonz72]

I had no idea they were making a new Robot Jox movie!

Yea, so I first heard GlaDOS then Jax Teller, and then I thought of Robot Jox. This movie is gonna be epic!

 

[RSLAEV]

OMG That move looks doooope Fucking rocket punch hnnnnnnggghh!

 

[Parakeetman]

Its like a modern version of Robot Jox cept with Monsters!!!!

 

[memecomplex]

Not Gundam, EVA, people! Evangelion

 

[Foxix Von]

That... looks like shit. I mean that should be one of the coolest things I've ever seen, but something about it looks so fucking hokey it fails to amaze me.

 

[KittyKittyBangBang]

I thought it would be a generic synthesized female voice that resembled GlaDOS not the SAME EXACT FUCKING VOICE!!! Cant really consider this a bad thing though

 

[Blablurn]

Best trailer of the week for sure

 

[Incendiary]

Yeah, I will not be able to take the movie seriously if the GlaDOS voice is present constantly in the film. That is really, really distracting.

 

[Monocle]

This looks horrible. In the most awesome way possible.

Guillermo Del Toro has the best problem a director can have: he's incapable of making a bad movie.

 

[LowParry]

That... looks like shit. I mean that should be one of the coolest things I've ever seen, but something about it looks so fucking hokey it fails to amaze me.

You play games and probably have seen much worse.

 

[soulassssns]

I think it is awesome

 

[thetrin]

Guillermo Del Toro has the best problem a director can have: he's incapable of making a bad movie.

It must be terrifyingly awesome.

 

[Darryl]

Of all the people that watch this film, less than 1% will have even played portal. And please don't be that guy in the seat beside/behind me explaining to your date that the AI voice annoys you because it is from a game you played

i bet when it comes out only people who have played portal will see it

 

[bloodforge]

Awesome. Been waiting for a trailer for this.

 

[Neuromancer]

Get out of here with your trolling

I wasn't trolling. I was sharing my opinion.

 

[Salsa]

LOL, c'mon dude, find me some pop culture references to glados.

explained what I meant by that in another post, basically said that videogame audiences are pretty in-line with the target audience of this movie and how a fuckton of people who play games know GlaDOS pretty well

 

[jasonng]

Girls gotta work. I would take a Pacific Rim job too.

 

[ZZMitch]

explained what I meant by that in another post, basically said that videogame audiences are pretty in-line with the target audience of this movie and how a fuckton of people who play games know GlaDOS pretty well

I think people who have played Portal know what who Glados is. I doubt, however, that if you go into Black Ops 2 matchmaking or something and ask people there who Glados is many will know. Gamers are pretty segregated too.

 

[PhoenixDark]

I don't think glados is as big of an "icon" as you think.

.

No one knows about that outside of a handful of gamers. It's not like Del Toro got the Mario guy to do the voice

 

[Hot Coldman]

It's not like Del Toro got the Mario guy to do the voice

Jett, your next trailer edit awaits.

 

[BomberMouse]

I don't think glados is as big of an "icon" as you think.

This. I know many gamers who don't know what glados is. Movie looks awful :/

I love robots, I love giant robots. Giant robots melee fighting? Stupidest idea ever.

 

[Aaron]

Guillermo Del Toro has the best problem a director can have: he's incapable of making a bad movie.

Hellboy II was a bad movie. The second half is a non-stop shit show with massive plot holes.

 

[Tagg9]

Guillermo Del Toro has the best problem a director can have: he's incapable of making a bad movie.

Blade II was quite awful IMO.

 

[xenist]

The GLaDOS complaints in this thread and others have me shaking my head so violently I'm actually heating up my room.

 

[Fafalada]

Why is Del Toro's name plastered all over a J. J. Abrams movie.

And why is he ripping off Evangelion?
And yes, what is Glados doing in Evangelion?

 

[Sojgat]

The amount of my personal favourite things that appear in that trailer make it a borderline fetish clip for me:

Giant monsters
Giant Robots
GlaDOS
People being sheathed in exo-frames by robotic arms
Idris Elba
Dumb speeches - "Today, we're cancelling the apocalypse!"
Jax Teller
Rocket punches

My god, this movie looks fucking amazing, and the voice seems to work here IMO, I didn't find it distracting at all.

 

[B-Genius]

Don't think about it.


Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it.Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it.Don't think about it.Don't think about it. Don't think about it.

Shit, I thought about it.

 

[Sad_Panda]

Honestly, the fact that both Jax Teller and Charlie Kelly star in it is way more distracting than the GLaDOS voice.

 

[Sojgat]

Honestly, the fact that both Jax Teller and Charlie Kelly star in it is way more distracting than the GLaDOS voice.

Wait, Charlie Day is in this movie as well? I'm going up to the mountains to freeze myself until this thing comes out.

 

[Wario64]

The amount of my personal favourite things that appear in that trailer make it a borderline fetish clip for me:

Giant monsters
Giant Robots
GlaDOS
People being sheathed in exo-frames by robotic arms
Idris Elba
Dumb speeches - "Today, we're cancelling the apocalypse!"
Jax Teller
Rocket punches

My god, this movie looks fucking amazing, and the voice seems to work here IMO, I didn't find it distracting at all.

Yeah, it gave me a boner

 

[Sad_Panda]

Wait, Charlie Day is in this movie as well? I'm going up to the mountains to freeze myself until this thing comes out.

Yes, he is. And Guillermo Del Toro actually made a cameo appearance in one of the recent IASIP episodes as a member of the McPoyle family.

 

[tsab]

If the OP wasn't Salsa I would assume that this thread was viral to watch trailer.
Worked though, now I am aware of this movie.

And to answer the OP, is a little bit distracting because I giggled like a girl but nice easter egg.

 

[Amon37]

Also: Is that Jax from Sons of Anarchy in it? That's bad ass.

Never played portal but having him in it screws with me more

 

[alphaNoid]

Movie looks terrible, portal voice in it is probably the best thing.

 

[glaurung]

The female computer voice was jarring for me.

But what disappointed me even more were the mech and enemy designs.

 

[aznpxdd]

The amount of my personal favourite things that appear in that trailer make it a borderline fetish clip for me:

Giant monsters
Giant Robots
GlaDOS
People being sheathed in exo-frames by robotic arms
Idris Elba
Dumb speeches - "Today, we're cancelling the apocalypse!"
Jax Teller
Rocket punches

My god, this movie looks fucking amazing, and the voice seems to work here IMO, I didn't find it distracting at all.

This post made me crack up at work.

 

[Noisepurge]

I have to agree.

Can you imagine hearing Nathan Drake's voice in anything other than Uncharted? It's blasphemy.

Jokepost? Nolan North plays pretty much the same voice in Assassins Creed and Spec Ops The Line for example

 

[UrbanRats]

That is distracting.
GlaDOS is the main reason why i can't play portal 2's campaign again, her chatting became annoying for me the first time around, let alone another entire plathrough.

Then again, it was more her constant attempts at comedy that got old, rather than the voice itself, so i guess it'll be fine here.

 

[the TMO]

There is Jacob from Mass Effect too.

 

[Keasar]

Oh thank god, I thought I had gone mad thinking it was her.

Definitely wanna see this movie, even before the GLaDOS voice.

That is distracting.
GlaDOS is the main reason why i can't play portal 2's campaign again, her chatting became annoying for me the first time around, let alone another entire plathrough.

Then again, it was more her constant attempts at comedy that got old, rather than the voice itself, so i guess it'll be fine here.

Attempts?

 

[superpickleman]

Ellen McLain just shot herself in the foot etc., etc.

 

[the TMO]

That is distracting.
GlaDOS is the main reason why i can't play portal 2's campaign again, her chatting became annoying

So it works. She do it on purpose.

 

[polg]

WTF Did I just watch?

 

[Akainu]

It is annoying.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

I don't think glados is as big of an "icon" as you think.

Yup. I really can't see it being a problem for the majority of people.

 

[Truant]

I still think Mountains of Madness would have been his big hit.